The Academica Top Ten – Academica Group
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November 6, 2024 – Academica Group
2 days ago — The University of Victoria will introduce a new Faculty of Health in May 2025. Aiming to address the demand for health-care professionals and specialized research, this new faculty will build on UVic’s existing strengths in health and …
November 1, 2024 – Academica Group
Nov 1, 2024 — The University of Manitoba and York University have each announced a variety of new sustainability initiatives. UManitoba launched the 2024 Green Investment Fund to support student, faculty, and staff projects promoting environmental …
Academica Forum
Nov 1, 2024 — Postsecondary education in Canada is undergoing massive change: AI, new marketing tools, changing student needs and expectations, a shifting enrolment and recruitment market, etc. The Academica Forum is a place for PSE professionals to share their thoughts, trade recent research findings, explain ne
QS World University Rankings 2025 released – Academica Group
Jun 6, 2024 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds has released the QS World University Rankings for 2025, assessing a record 1,503 institutions from around the world. The ranking measures universities on their performance across metrics such as reputation, faculty-student ratios, citations, and sustainability.
Priced Out: How Students Felt about Housing Costs in 2023
Jan 11, 2024 — Method . This survey was fielded online between October 18th and November 6th with Academica’s proprietary StudentVu research panel. The responses of 1,064 panellists were included in the final analysis; their data were weighted by gender based on the 2020/2021 Postsecondary Student Information System enrolment data to better reflect the perspectives of Canadian postsecondary students.
Times Higher Education unveils World University Rankings 2025
Oct 10, 2024 — Times Higher Education has released its World University Rankings 2025, evaluating 2,092 universities from 115 countries based on teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook, and industry. Eight Canadian institutions ranked in the top 200 this year: the University of Toronto (#21), the University of British Columbia (#41), McGill University (#45), McMaster ...
Outing a pretendian: How four Métis scholars redefined …
Sep 18, 2024 — Chelsea Gabel, McMaster University; Bobby (Robert) Henry, University of Saskatchewan; Caroline Tait, University of Calgary, and Janet K. Smylie, University of Toronto. Addressing the pretendian issue in Canada is deeply personal, for us, because we are the academics who uncovered and exposed Carrie Bourassa’s Indigenous identity fraud.. We are four Red River Métis scholars who hold Métis ...
CEWIL Canada releases report on WIL in Canada - Academica
Mar 6, 2024 — CEWIL Canada has released a report on the current landscape of work-integrated learning in Canada. “Mapping the Terrain: A Synthesis of Recent Research and Future Directions” offers an extensive look at work-integrated learning across Canada, including the benefits associated with WIL, the challenges to delivering and accessing WIL, and recent developments in …
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